Example sentences of "was [verb] over to the " in BNC.

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1 The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 .
2 Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes .
3 So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 .
4 The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor .
5 Much of the speech was given over to the already familiar complaints about " destructive and separatist tendencies " and about " ferocious " attempts to discredit the central government , and to exhortations to political forces to unite behind perestroika .
6 As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’
7 Morse smiled to himself , and was walking over to the door when Stratton spoke again : ‘ Can I ask you a favour ? ’
8 Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project .
9 Gradually Congress was won over to the need for tax increases and cuts in public expenditure .
10 Erm that later on , the signal box that used to be here was moved over to the other side , that 's all that 's there for .
11 The first agrarian reform in the region took place in Mexico after the revolution and went through its most radical phase in the 1930s , when much good land was turned over to the ejidos , the public sector .
12 Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items .
13 If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals .
14 Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh .
15 Soon after arriving at Marshall Malinovsky 's headquarters in Debrezcin on 17 January 1945 , Wallenberg was handed over to the NKVD , the predecessor of the KGB , and disappeared .
16 He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC .
17 He continued as secretary until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC .
18 He was handed over to the terribly liberal ( sorry , I think that should be liberally terrible ) dictator by Mr David Steel , hard-line leader of a British political grouping engaged in the notorious Lib-Lab pact , at a time when Ceausescu was still wildly popular .
19 It was handed over to the National Trust in 1956 .
20 On 1 July 1932 , the electricity undertaking of the South Metropolitan company was handed over to the London & Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority , who already supplied the current in bulk .
21 Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton .
22 Eastcote was handed over to the military and the German seamen , after a temporary stay at the Alexandra Palace , were condemned to live behind barbed wire and fixed bayonets ; Alton Abbey had already been closed .
23 Magwitch 's thick wallet was handed over to the police , and Wemmick was quite annoyed with me about it .
24 He was handed over to the British army and sent back to England .
25 He was quickly driven to Damascus where he was handed over to the US chargé d'affaires , John Craig .
26 The Cárdenas city government was handed over to the PRD .
27 Leith Nautical College agreed to operate a pre-sea training scheme for Cadets and Deck Boys on board the ship and the vessel was handed over to the Dolphin Training Ship Society , the ship in turn being rented to the College .
28 When the power of the higher civil service declined after 1942 and the state administration became absorbed into the party structure , the running of the economy was handed over to the most powerful monopolists .
29 The money was handed over to the Geriatric Unit at Belfast City Hospital by Mrs Alison Chick .
30 The cake was handed over to the Friarage Hospital yesterday .
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